From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SMP support in 2.6.x kernel for sparc32
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:11:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040729001141.GJ2334@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001301c474db$af707860$3c01a8c0@cascade>
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:53:29 -0700 William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> | I just rediffed the smp patch by brute force vs. 2.6.8-rc2. I'll spin
> | it up on 3x hypersparc if it turns out the box is actually functional
> | and see where it explodes sometime in the next 72 hours.
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:05:27AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Well, hypersparc has a whole extra set of problems. Unless you use an
> embedded root it's got a ~97% chance of not running init. Only way to
> run a proper userspace on hypersparcs with 2.6.x is to boot into
> busybox, nfsmount a system image and then repeatedly try to run things
> until you get lucky with DMA...
Yes, I will need to fix the hypersparc DMA issue as well. Nothing wrong
with that, it needs fixing anyway.
Actually my system is diskless anyway, so I will in all probability get
whatever result you're expecting from nfsroot by coincidence anyway.
If you've got fixes already feel free to send them my way.
Thanks.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-29 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-28 19:47 SMP support in 2.6.x kernel for sparc32 Tom Weustink
2004-07-28 22:06 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-28 22:35 ` Keith M Wesolowski
2004-07-28 22:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-28 23:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-29 0:05 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-07-29 0:11 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-07-29 4:42 ` Tom Weustink
2004-07-29 5:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
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